Birmingham launch of The Knowledge Weapon

Contact: events.birmingham@waterstones.com

Birmingham launch of Annette C. Boehm’s collection ‘The Knowledge Weapon’ with special guests Zelda Chappel & Jane Commane

The Knowledge Weapon by Annette C. Boehm.

Annette's book launch tour concludes in Birmingham with this event at Waterstones on the High Street, with special guests Zelda Chappel & Jane Commane. (Check out our other events on this book tour in Cardiff, London & Manchester. http://www.barefictionmagazine.co.uk/events-listings/ )

This is a free event.

To secure your seat you can either call Waterstones on 0121 6334353, message them on Facebook or Twitter @waterstonesbham, email events.birmingham@waterstones.com, or simply pop into the shop and put your name down for a ticket.

Annette C. Boehm won the Bare Fiction Debut Poetry Collection Competition 2015, as judged by award winning poet Andrew McMillan who has this to say about The Knowledge Weapon: "Open the book on any page and try not to be impressed by the command of language, the dynamism of image, the thrill of subjects which are on offer."

"In Annette C. Boehm’s stunning The Knowledge Weapon, false knowledge is inflicted—but quickly finds itself shredded by its own sword. This fierce debut collection explores our baroque relations with one another and with a savaged ecology. Can a book be both ominous and playful, both freeing and disturbing? Read this and know."
Angela Ball, Professor of English at The University of Southern Mississippi

You can purchase a copy of the collection on the night or from our website: http://www.barefictionmagazine.co.uk/buy/books/knowledge-weapon-annette-c-boehm/

Annette C. Boehm is a graduate of the Center for Writers at The University of Southern Mississippi. Her chapbook The Five Parts of Love - Confabulating Sappho was published by Dancing Girl Press in 2012, and her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in UK and US journals such as New Welsh Review, Under the Radar, elimae, Chariton Review, Hawaii Pacific Review, Journal of Compressed Creative Arts and others. Her manuscript The Knowledge Weapon was also finalist for the 2015 New Issues Poetry Prize, FIELD Poetry Prize, and the Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves as a poetry reader for the online journal Memorious.

Zelda Chappel’s debut poetry collection 'The Girl in the Dog-tooth Coat' was published by Bare Fiction in 2015. Her poetry has also been widely published in both print and online journals with poems appearing in Obsessed with Pipework, Whisker, Eunoia Review, Lunar Poetry, Popshot, Bare Fiction, Prole, Hark Magazine, The Interpreter’s House and Ink, Sweat & Tears amongst many others. In September 2014, her poem Another Twenty, Another Stone won the Battered Moons Poetry Competition, judged by David Morley. Her poetry was also nominated for best single poem in the Forward Prize 2015. Zelda is sub-editor for Elbow Room, an on-going series of art journals and live events. Celebrating art in all guises each volume of Elbow Room is carefully curated to create an individual and cohesive collection. Produced in limited edition, hand bound pamphlets.

Jane Commane was born in Coventry and lives and works in Warwickshire. She is a poet, editor at Nine Arches Press and co-editor at Under the Radar. Her poems have been previously published in the Morning Star, Proletarian Poetry, The Stares Nest, And Other Poems, Tears in the Fence and Iota. Her poems have also featured in anthologies, including MAP: Poems After William Smith’s Geological Map of 1815 (Ed. Michael McKimm, Worple Press) and The Best British Poetry 2011 (Salt Publishing).

Entry: Free

Time: 7:00pm